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Hades has been a wild ride for me personally. When I started it I hated it, simply because i'm old and I suck at fast paced, difficult games. And Hades is really hard. So I quit.
But I returned later and tried to enable God Mode in the options menu and since then I fell in love with the game. Not only it made the game fun but it also taught me how to play so i was able to play without God Mode and beat the game without any issues. I wish more difficult games had a dynamic difficulty like that. God Mode isn't what it sounds like, it simply raises to damage resistance by 2% each time you die, up until 80%.
So the gameplay loop is pretty simple – you must get out to the surface, in other words escape from you daddy through four different areas by beating enemies and bosses. You're supposed to fail and die but each time you try again you have learned something new and became stronger.
You have variety of weapons at your disposal which will suit everyone's playstyle. My personal favorite and easiest was the spear followed by the sword.
On top of that each weapon has different variations of it which changes the fundamental characteristics of the weapon so it feels entirely different.
On your way to escape you will be able to improve your weapons and skills by picking up boons from different gods and hammers. Which again may transform your experience completely. You must rely on rng though. So sometimes rng is just bad and that leaves you with the only option to try again and get luckier next time.
The god design and interactions are just insanely good, every conversation is unique and it's always to meet them.
The game is extremely simple but pretty challenging and hard to master. You have a bunch of areas filled with different enemies and must kill them all using your weapon and skills. The combat is extremely fun and fluid, absolutely no jankiness, everything is super smooth and the only handicap is your own skill and reaction time.
The game looks beautiful and has wonderful artstyle accompanied by well written characters and story. The artstyle is just outstanding, not for a single frame you will be disappointed. Now the story isn't spectacular but it's good and interesting. One fun thing though is that dialogues do not repeat. Even after 100 runs you get new dialogues from the same characters. It's an outstanding achievements by the developers to make each run feel at least somewhat fresh and have a purpose other than escaping.
Another absolutely perfect thing about the game is the soundtrack. Oh my oh my it's good and you will never want to turn it off. Fits the game so well and makes every encounter even more intense and interesting.
The game has easy achievements for achievement hunters, although it takes a while since a lot of the stuff relies on grind and doing runs again and again.
Overall an excellent game worth buying at any price. Fluid gameplay, amazing artstyle and great soundtrack makes it stand out.
Pros

Smooth and fluid controls
Great graphics
Awesome soundtrack
Accessibility options
Extremely fun and rewarding

Cons

Grind for achievements is a bit too much


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